Hawaii Poised to go Full Purple Wage

Hawaii has declared that “basic financial security” is now a fundamental human right that people are entitled to simply for having a temperature above room temperature…

“Hawaii may trail blaze and become the first to offer guaranteed basic income.

“A bill was recently passed through both the houses and state legislature in a unanimous vote that declares that all Hawaiians ‘deserve basic financial security’ and prompts state agencies to look over ‘universal basic income’ along with other policy.”

The “universal basic income” is a fantasy that posits that with modern technology, people will be freed by free stuff from the government to elevate themselves into a creative and harmonious utopia. This is just a rehash of the concept of the “Purple Wage”, a concept in the science fiction novel “Riders of the Purple Wage“:

“Riders of the Purple Wage is an extrapolation of the mid-twentieth century’s tendency towards state supervision and consumer-oriented economic planning. In the story, all citizens receive a basic income (the purple wage) from the government, to which everyone is entitled just by being born. The population is self-segregated into relatively small communities, with a controlled environment, and keeps in contact with the rest of the world through the Fido, a combination television and videophone.”